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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Joseph Brodsky quotes

American Poet May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996

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boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the... Joseph Brodsky
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. Joseph Brodsky
Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly. For these characters civilization meant more than daily bread and a nightly hug. This wasn’t, as it would seem, another lost generation. This was the only generation of Russians that had found itself, for whom Giotto and Mandelstam were more imperative than their own personal destinies. Poorly dressed yet somehow still elegant…broken, growing... Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "...and love, as an act, lacks a verb"
...and love, as an act, lacks a verb Joseph Brodsky
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and..."
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and..."
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Joseph Brodsky
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is..."
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "This is the generation whose first cry of life was the..."
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with..."
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. Joseph Brodsky
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky quote: "What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the..."
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. Joseph Brodsky
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. Joseph Brodsky

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